verb (flimflams, flimflamming, flimflammed)

And I'm far from the only one who has been flimflammed by articulate, accomplished candidates who turned out to be psychotic, fascist, or just plain useless even before the ink was dry on their personnel forms.

But the only thing these people got for their effort - and their money - was flimflammed.

Derivatives

flimflammer

Our captains should be leading by example; but instead, they have shown themselves as a clique of charlatans, flimflammers and parasites, funding their hypocritical debauchery at society's expense.

Since these flimflammers had already profited enormously from the earlier bailout, the industry feared that an outraged public might demand that the industry itself foot the bill for this retroactive giveaway.

The real crime, in one Judge's opinion, is that the flimflammers and fakers often kneecap the faith of those simply seeking something greater than themselves in which to believe.